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[EVO 4G General] oddlou:
Anyone else having issues with certain buttons /tabs/frames not showing upon certain apps? For example, in the What's for Dinner app, there are two tabs that show on other roms but will not show on cm. I've discussed with the developer and he's assured me it works as it should with both froyo and gingerbread roms, but that he doesn't know why it doesn't with cm on the evo. Any ideas?
[EVO 4G General] Vegasrich:
I love cm,but a small bug is not having to pull your battery 5-10 times a day. Maybe it's just me. Older builds didn't do that. I'm only asking because I want to come back. Thanks
[EVO 4G General] Redneck Trash:
Wait for a stable release.
[EVO 4G General] crstfr:
i'm on rc4N35 running SZ 1.0.1 and i'm not having any of these issues, knock on wood.
[EVO 4G General] thegame3202:
Weird question for you guys.... I'm running a newer nightly (can't remember which one) but this has happened for a long time now. Occasionally when I answer the phone, it answers and I can hear them but they can't hear me... If i toggle "mute" on then off again, it works. So it's like it's muting me, without me pressing the button. Anyone else have this issue?
[EVO 4G General] mkeena0305:
Haven't heard that one yet. Try wiping cache and davlik
[EVO 4G General] r0cky0790:
This has happened to me also, haven't noticed it on the newer nightlies though.

Brought to you by the official AOSP "ROM HOPPER™" MIUI-CM7 -r0cky.Da.3v0.SU.-
[EVO 4G General] Jeremy300:
Lucky, I find little issues all over the place, but dont complain because I know its not a final release
[EVO 4G General] thegame3202:
I wasn't complaining :-P I was just asking if anyone else had the same error.
[EVO 4G General] lost_man10002:
Finally with #36 my boot time is significantly faster nice!!!...keeps getting better and better CM rocks
[EVO 4G General] thedarksavant:
Hopefully not too off topic, but I know battery concerns are paramount on the juice sucking EVO. I've added this link to the FAQ and thought others might be interested. It's an article at Battery University on caring for Lithium Ion batteries. Enjoy :)
[EVO 4G General] superultramegarad:
Update. CM nightly 36 does not solve the 4g issue. I still drop constantly, however, the reconnect happens much quicker. So we are moving in the right direction =)
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
4g drops constantly because wimax sucks and that's just how it is, whether on a sense rom or cm. Actually I get less disconnects on cm then I do a sense rom. With wimax you can take 1 or 2 steps and there it goes. Wimax was good to get it out the door first but I've been playing with my boys thunderbolt and lte only drops signals in the hills (where you would probably expect dropped signals) but throughout the city and in most homes you're always on lte, but that is a different discussion. I just don't believe its the rom is my point.
[EVO 4G General] superultramegarad:
I can use sense roms without the 4g cutout. Seems like its the rom to me?
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
Not arguing with you because mine works fine but I'm just saying the majority of the 4G complaints were about not reconnecting after dropping signal vs. Dropping signals where they normally have full signal strength. If more people start posting that error or post logcats I'm sure they will look into it.
[EVO 4G General] JOEOZUNA4U:
wimax

development on wimax keeps going and going and going...

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andr...mmit/3b41a0d63c4f6c282f94fad1fa35e6281d9bae75
[EVO 4G General] nc_carol:
most people that don't have problems with it are not posting. Lots of people aren't reporting the problem so it can't be just the rom at issue or everyone would see the same issue. right? I love working this rom and don't know why, but I have had almost zero issues. The ones I have seen, have been easily remedied (gps). Feeling very appreciative. I suppose I should transfer that feeling to my wallet ;)
[EVO 4G General] brofist:
WiMAX and LTE both have low physical penetration; that is to say, if a wall is in the way, WiMAX and LTE both will go less far than a 3G CDMA or GSM connection.

"Your boy's" Thunderbolt is probably bombarded with LTE towers, which means they will have less instances of "down spots" in the area. Sprint has less towers outfitted with WiMAX capability, as well as the small fact that as of right now, CM does not properly show WiMAX signal strength. Most people having instances of 4g>3g drops with "full bars" are on a sketchy 4g signal. Most issues with us having 4G drops are the ROM reaching a buffer limit (which was recently patched).

Hypergeneralize all you want, but WiMAX does not meet any of your problems you cited just now. Maybe you are holding it wrong?

To bluetooth users:

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andr...mmit/c057832ef4cb884724df8ce2f1b08fe37abeda28

Fix data corruption when writing to Bluetooth socket

Writes to Bluetooth sockets are handled by writeNative() in
android_bluetooth_BluetoothSocket.cpp. This calls asocket_write()
which is implemented in abort_socket.c.

This latter function sleeps until poll() indicates that the socket is
writeable, then calls write() once, returning the number of bytes
written. However writeNative() just returns this byte count to the
caller; it's eventually ignored in BluetoothOutputStream.java. This
doesn't match the semantics of a Java OutputStream, which is required
to block until all bytes have been written.

This fix adds a loop to writeNative() that repeatedly calls the lower
level write function until all the data has been written (or an error
occurred in which case we should exit the loop early). With this
change it is possible to write large amounts of data to a Bluetooth
socket without experiencing data loss.
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
Not to sure what you mean but its a known fact 2500mhz has crappy building penetration as opposed to 700mhz which is what Lte uses and is great for building penetration. That's the short end of the stick. Sprint picked a loser man. Also in full 4g area's why are there soooooo many fringe areas. People report taking a few steps and dropping 4g ALL the time, this doesn't happen on lte
[EVO 4G General] brofist:
I've never seen a single instance of someone getting WiMAX and losing it within steps. Never. Its never going to be "all the time" if you never hear it, eh? I'm sure if it was "in steps", it wouldn't have gotten praise across the nation from reviewers or have had multiple generations of sequels due to the high popularity and stable working hardware?

WiMAXgenA has a bandwidth cap of ~10MB/s per device, while future generations support up to 1Gb/s transfers. Sprint chose a long-term solution, and pushed out early revision devices to be the first usable deployed 4g network.

700Mhz waves still experience up to 40% reduction and/or refraction in signal through a wall built to standards. That's not great (sure, WiMAXa and its 60% isn't good, but its still usable to many extents).
[EVO 4G General] matt2053:
Even if Sprint went LTE, they'd have to put it in 2500 mhz spectrum though right? The reason VZW's LTE is in 700 mhz is because they own that spectrum. If sprint owned it, they would put WiMax there and it would penetrate better. Right?

So it's not that Sprint picked a lesser technology. It's that they dont have as good spectrum holdings as VZW.
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
didn't know that, i guess vzw customers do have something to brag about, to me sprint and vzw were considered equal. i'll be honest it is a significant difference between wimax and lte to the point where htc didn't even include an on/off switch for their 4G. I have a 3g xoom, when it gets upgraded to 4G i will do significant testing but i don't want to take this thread off track. thanks given for the knowledge.
[EVO 4G General] jessesse:
I play Xbox live on wimax often using built in wifi tether.. There were instances were I would lag out and check the phone and it has dropped to 3g. However this is not the case anymore. I still will lag out out or get disconnected occassionally but my phone will still show 4g now. What is weird is sometimes it will let me finish my match (halo) and then it will fail to load information from Xbox live but not dissconnect me requiring me to sign back out and back in. I tried to read the logcat and said something about dhcp=failed

I will try to post it when I get a chance.
[EVO 4G General] r0cky0790:
I play Xbox with wifi tether over 4g as well. Pretty much the 4g wont disconnect on the phone anymore but from time to time I will get kicked offline. This seems to happens when I'm sitting idle at the dashboard or when I'm watching Netflix. When I'm in a party chat its stays connected and I rarely get kicked while actually playing online.

Brought to you by the official AOSP "ROM HOPPER™" MIUI-CM7 -r0cky.Da.3v0.SU.-
[EVO 4G General] 1970mueller:
when I first flashed 36 yesterday, I seemed to still have the 4g disconnect and then no 4 or 3g. Today I reflashed, left stock kernel and am seeming to have noticeably better connection, and no issue like before. I did wipe everything twice, cause I knew it had been fixed. I guess that worked! I was also getting the black screen where I'd have to push the power button like 3 times to get it on. It wasn't that I couldn't see or gesture the screen, it was off off off. Just keep re-flashing and wiping if stuffs not good for you. What's the better governor on stock, on-demand or conservative, or battery saver? I wan't the longest battery life, I'm getting 10 hours maybe.
[EVO 4G General] jessesse:
Yeah I dissconnect from xbl a lot watching a film in theater mode.. like you said. I'm at work all night so I will try to post a logcat tomorrow .
[EVO 4G General] brofist:
Well, you are on 4G so you will be sapping your battery, but "Battery Saver" and "Conservative" tend to be better for saving battery, with Battery Saver usually doing a better job at the name.

Keep in mind that performance of powerful tasks will be negatively impacted by governor, so if you encounter janky/sluggish tasks check your governor before reporting it as an issue.
[EVO 4G General] timtlm:
I'm pretty sure sprint has really good spectrum that they aren't even using. It's just that the wimax network is owned and operated by clear.
[EVO 4G General] ipatella:
I really wish iDen gets used for LTE or WiMax in the near future. WiMax is a joke in terms of wall penetration.
[EVO 4G General] BrianDigital:
thats the idea, i believe they will be phasing out nextel all together soon, adding some push to toalk to 3g and using the spectrum from the nextel buy for the 4g
[EVO 4G General] p0rkguy:
I couple of sensitive data on my phone and I try my hardest to keep it out of other people's hands with a gesture unlock. At first I felt secure but then I realized it unlocks itself once my alarm goes off. Now is this a glitch or is it because of the limited AOSP clock?

It's like you can't unlock it.... but it'll unlock itself at (t). So wait until then if you want in. Which kind of sucks...
[EVO 4G General] galt:
Hi gang. Some of you might remember me from the GPS-dead-horse-beating a few months back that resulted in us finding the GPSCLRX fix. I know a few people have still have problems, and I wonder if there is still another factor causing GPS fail. So, those with working or non-working GPS, please read through this and try the testing I describe near the end.

I saw a post on the CM forums where a user noticed that his GPS was fine until he tried to play music *unless* the music was playing back over headphones or car speakers through either the headphone jack or over Bluetooth. I can duplicate his experience exactly on the latest nightly, but also on a stock but rooted Sense ROM oddly...

My GPS currently locks quickly, sticks, and tracks me perfectly unless I try to play music back on the device speakers. Within 10-20 seconds of playing music (via any app), the GPS lock is lost. If I keep playing music and plug in headphones, it locks again in 10-20 seconds. Tried navigating while playing music over Bluetooth and GPS stayed perfectly locked.

Here's where **** gets really weird. I can sit here with a tight GPS lock and start playing music over the EVO speakers and watch GPS fail within 20 seconds, but if I turn the volume of the music down so it is super quiet, in 10-20 seconds GPS locks right back in tightly while the music is playing quietly. So, the only thing I can imagine is causing some GPS fail is due to vibration or electric interference from the built-in speakers at a certain level of volume. Sounds weird, but I can repeat it again and again.

My personal GPS usage scenarios aren't affected by this, so I don't know if this is a long running problem or a new one, but I'd like to try and figure this out so maybe we can figure out a fix for anyone still having issues.

Can some good people please try these kinds of tests? Is your GPS disrupted by playing music back over the device speakers (loudly)? Does GPS lock return when playing music over headphones (wired or Bluetooth)?
[EVO 4G General] mkeena0305:
Nice new wallpaper
[EVO 4G General] Redneck Trash:
I'm going to say these issues will be resolved soon.
[EVO 4G General] dirkyd3rk:
Say what!!!!!! *stewie voice*

~ d3rk
[EVO 4G General] matt2053:
Hmmm. Well.... I never play music on my phone and never play any sound on the speakers. Any I've had mega-GPS issues.
[EVO 4G General] ageesm:
This is one of the strangest things I have read recently. At first glance it seems rather odd and doesn't seem logical, but what is with our GPS these days? Seems like you have tested it fairly well. I certainly don't think this is the cause of the major GPS bug, but it still could be valuable info.

I will say I just got back from traveling about an hour away, and both ways I used GPS while playing music through the jack to my car stereo's auxiliary port with no issues whatsoever. Had I known I would have tested through the phone speaker, I will try that out tomorrow if I get a chance ;). Latest nightly with stock kernel btw.
[EVO 4G General] galt:
To clarify, I doubt this audio issue is the main GPS issue, but I wonder if it could be a secondary issue causing problems for some users.
[EVO 4G General] oddlou:
Nobody else cooks!? Or bump in hopes that someone that can help didn't see my early morning post. :)
[EVO 4G General] oddlou:
Meant to quote myself above..
[EVO 4G General] brofist:
GPSCLRX user, the "workaround" fixed my GPS issues.

Will attempt to replicate with line-of-sight to skyline GPS and music with a(n) alogcat running.

Hope we can find something to take to the bank, will repost with results (<15min).

edit: After playing a song that reaches pitch whine (90% volume, but does sound warbling distortion) while currently GPS locked, I was able to maintain a GPS lock to 10m (down from 2m). Still was able to maintain navigation lock.
[EVO 4G General] galt:
Thanks for the test, interesting results (GPS accuracy deterioration but lock held). Wanna try it with headphones plugged in or over Bluetooth?
[EVO 4G General] deviouskater:
Bug found for wimax signal strength posted by Shinzul tweet. Yay
[EVO 4G General] brofist:
Sure, just let me catch my breath. P:

As an extra note, when I did the GPSCLRX workaround, I got a Sense Maps lock first, and I've been recommending people do such as it tends to fix problems for some people who the vanilla GPSCLRX workaround does not for.
[EVO 4G General] dirkyd3rk:
The past couple of days there's been wimax commits; I guess thats why cm7 final is around the corner.

~ d3rk
[EVO 4G General] issafram:
His twitter....

@Shinzul: Found the bug with the #wimax signal strength. #blamecyanogen

Yays...
[EVO 4G General] m4rk0358:
Update on my Mixzing issue:

The Mixzing folks think it's something on the ROM side that's affecting the unresponsive lock screen music controls and off screen volume button track skip.
[EVO 4G General] mdubs:
ATTENTION SHINZUL:

Next project: 720p video on CM Camera.

Aaaaaannnd GO!

:D
[EVO 4G General] craig198:
this is my first evo flash and I heard cm7 is the best. Im running RC4 and I do like some of the features. Biggest for me is the video audio quality is fantastic! that being said It is very buggy. Im hitting some typing bugs where you cant see what your typing. The whole OS just feels kinda buggy to me. And Im used to bugs. stock android has its own to (just not as bad) what do you all think?

I did wipe my cache before flashing.
[EVO 4G General] matt2053:
That doesn't sound like something any of the rest of us are seeing. I would recommend doing a full wipe of Cache/Dalvik Cache, and Factory Reset if you didn't do that before flashing, and reflash the ROM.
[EVO 4G General] nc_carol:
did you 'fix permissions' ? Always helps alot for me
[EVO 4G General] ChickenArise:
Is it lagging, covered up, or just not showing? Can you provide a screenshot?
[EVO 4G General] brofist:
Stock Android was never meant for CDMA phones (Android OS was originally GSM, with manufacturers filling in the CDMA gaps), so quite a lot of the AOSP CM we are using on our Evo was rewritten from scratch to meet these inadequacies.

This being said, RC4 is older than the newest nightly, which patches quite a few bugs some people run across.

The keyboard glitch is something that happens either when permissions are out of whack or when an improper write is made to the cache. Settings> Application> Manage Applications> Clear Cache on "Android Keyboard" or whichever keyboard you are using.
[EVO 4G General] craig198:
well you really need a video to see what its doing. but I can tell you Im typing and nothing turns up in the box but yet google insta search is showing options for the keys im typing.

i will try fix permissions next and let you know. thanks for the help guys.
[EVO 4G General] rushco:
Nightly 37 is out

http://mirror.teamdouche.net/?type=nightly&device=supersonic
[EVO 4G General] timtlm:
Looks like there's a new nightly out. #37.
[EVO 4G General] nebenezer:
I've actually been seeing that a lot in n31 and now in 36. Haven't correlated it with anything (usually happens when trying to search something, but not always) but killing whatever app I'm in when it happens usually makes the symptom (typed text is there but not visible) go away.
[EVO 4G General] timdsmith72:
If you're coming from any other ROM, you need to do a FULL wipe before flashing CM7. Cache, Dalvic-Cache, and DATA/Factory Reset. There's a "Format All" zip floating around here somewhere that'll help.
[EVO 4G General] JOEOZUNA4U:
im on nghtly #37.. funny thing, i can not assign swipe down/up or any gestures (adw launcher) to open/close notifications..... also, notification bar doest show the date when long pressed
[EVO 4G General] thanatos_evo:
I was running 35 with no issues until all my widgets started disappearing out of the blue. Stock kernel, stock widgets (stuff like power control, calendar, clock), ADW Ex launcher.

I was planning on formatting my sd card and a full wipe + clean install of the latest nightly anyway, so I'm not majorly bummed.

Now running nightly 36, and it is *slick*! If this is anything to go by, 7.0.0 final should be incredible. This is monumentally epic work by the CM team to release a fully functional GB ROM well before HTC and other companies, so kudos to all the devs. Much gratitude fellas!
[EVO 4G General] 12MaNy:
To add on to this ^....

Amon_RA has system and boot wipe options.
[EVO 4G General] 151jcolon:
Yup, same here
[EVO 4G General] NewZJ:
were joey and shinzuls wimax commits included in the new nightly?
[EVO 4G General] maxdamage2122:
I downloaded the app and the same thing happens to me. I've never seen this behavior on any other app even those with tabs. I'd have to assume its an issue with the app even though the dev doesn't think so.
[EVO 4G General] ageesm:
Yes, don't think there have been any commits since #37, there are a few wimax related commits. This changelog generator thing is quite nice to see what made it in or not.

http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=supersonic
[EVO 4G General] dluu43:
wireless tether issues

Can anyone help? I searched this thread but couldnt find a solution. Flashed from n32 and recently n36 and still have the same wireless tethering problems. The log shows it starts with these errors :setting channel, setting essid, setting ad-hoc, activating wifi interface = fail. Then when i would switch to wifi instead of 3g after the wifi doesnt start up until i reboot. hope i explained it right. help?
[EVO 4G General] hurricane350:
Well the WiMax strength indicator is functioning on n37...

Which leads me to a question, I've always heard the signal strength indicator on Cyanogen represents data as opposed to Sense where it represents voice signal. If that is indeed the case, when on WiMax isn't that redundant?
[EVO 4G General] matt2053:
I'm pretty sure the signal bar is voice.

At work I get zero or one bars, and I get ~2 Mbps 3G data speeds.
[EVO 4G General] M4ver1ck:
Hm. On n37 in the manage wimax settings, my signal strength is on excellent even when its off. And rssi just says unkown even when connected to 4g. Odd
[EVO 4G General] Shidell:
GPS is unfortunately still not working.

I'm willing to start reviewing source code to help fix this. Anyone up on where to start looking for the problem? Cyanogen mentioned it being a "binary blob" HTC uses with correlation to this GPS chip(set?), but that was all I saw.

Driver related? Framework related?

Let's fix this.
[EVO 4G General] dirkyd3rk:
That's odd. GPS has been spot on for me after doing the sense work around several nightlies later. I believe cyanogen mentioned it was driver related but i could be wrong.

~ d3rk
[EVO 4G General] matt2053:
The point is to get it working without having to do a workaround. ;)
[EVO 4G General] dirkyd3rk:
Word. I got ya!

~ d3rk
[EVO 4G General] Shidell:
Yep, that's the goal. So it's specifically GPS driver related, then?

Hypothetically, that should really narrow down the possibilities. I'm going to start investigating.

If anyone has more info or can assist with a better idea of what's happening, please post.
[EVO 4G General] Shidell:
I just started testing, and my GPS just started working. Reliably.

:confused:
[EVO 4G General] galt:
Did you read my post back a couple of pages (gps negatively affected by music playback over device speakers). Any chance your problems were while music was playing?
[EVO 4G General] oddlou:
I actually noticed today that in the Good for Enterprise app, in the preferences, the headers are missing from each section there, as well.
[EVO 4G General] kf2m:
I have to agree with building attenuation with the 11cm band(2.5GHz which is the same band as WiFi), but you can pack more data (about 3x as much) using the same amount of bandwidth than with a 42cm(700MHz) signal. So Verizons network will saturate faster than Sprints would all things being equal. Sprint can either increase their power, or add more antennas to provide better coverage. But also the higher the frequency you go the lower your maximum allowable power is available for you to use(FCC rules). So you have tradeoffs either way. Also since the 11cm antenna is shorter you can get away with stuffing a full wave dipole antenna, instead of a 1/4 or 1/2 wave ground plane antenna (and using the operators hand as the ground plane).

Relative to CM I am getting dropoffs just by moving my phone on my desk at work along with low throughput(1-4mb/s). Using a Sense ROM I get zero dropoffs, and consistent 7-8mb/s. It would be nice to see 4G on CM be at least on par with a Sense ROM before it goes Final.
[EVO 4G General] blu3poptart:
Ahh can they please fix the text reflow issue before the final release? That would be amazing! Please and thanks! That's the extent of my complaints :p cyanogen is awesome!
[EVO 4G General] Redneck Trash:
I know it was mentioned earlier but I too don't have the date in the notification bar.
[EVO 4G General] twiz0r:
I dont believe anybody does :(

swyped from my cyanogenized and gingerbreaded EVO
[EVO 4G General] snowboarda42:
http://review.cyanogenmod.com/4509

This makes me happy :-D

Sent from my hand with XDA Premium installed
[EVO 4G General] twiz0r:
I dont understand that once. What does out mean?

swyped from my cyanogenized and gingerbreaded EVO